Today I found that my Win 7 partition was infected by a virus. I rebooted to my XP partition via BING and need to clean my Win 7 partition. Do you folks have any recommendations on how I can do that? Thanks for any help you can provide.

On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 10:29:10 PST, just as I was about to take a herb,
wmawoodjr disturbed my reverie and wrote:

>Today I found that my Win 7 partition was infected by a virus. I rebooted to my XP partition via BING and need to clean my Win 7 partition. Do you folks have any recommendations on how I can do that? Thanks for any help you can provide.
>

Try booting your Win 7 into safe mode and do a system restore to a
virus-free time. This is a very successful and oft missed step. It is
for this sole purpose that I do not disable system restore even though
I backup frequently.

Then, it would be a good time to start to backup frequently and review
your anti-virus strategy.

Please let me know how you get on. If you cannot boot your win 7
partition I can help you get your data off if you need it.
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Cheers

DrT
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On 2012-12-25 1:29 PM, wmawoodjr wrote:
> Today I found that my Win 7 partition was infected by a virus. I rebooted to my XP partition via BING and need to clean my Win 7 partition. Do you folks have any recommendations on how I can do that? Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
>
what's wrong with at least attempting to downloadable a bootable rescue
file, from say Kapersky. You have all the tools with a good XP
partition-internet availability, a way to burn an ISO file to a CD
(presumably, but if not, get one from someone else), and then boot with
it to see what it can find, and clean.

Last time I tried Kaspersky they used Linux and it was
harder to tell what I needed to do.
Mary

On 12/25/2012 6:22 PM, AlanD wrote:
> On 2012-12-25 1:29 PM, wmawoodjr wrote:
>> Today I found that my Win 7 partition was infected by a virus. I rebooted to my XP partition via BING and need to clean my Win 7 partition. Do you folks have any recommendations on how I can do that? Thanks for any help you can provide.
>>
>>
> what's wrong with at least attempting to downloadable a bootable rescue
> file, from say Kapersky. You have all the tools with a good XP
> partition-internet availability, a way to burn an ISO file to a CD
> (presumably, but if not, get one from someone else), and then boot with
> it to see what it can find, and clean.
>
> There are also at least four other AV vendors with free downloads.
>
> AlanD
>
>

On 2012-12-25 9:24 PM, mjnelson99 wrote:
> Good suggestion.
>
> I know Trend Micro's Housecall is a good one. It is not
> Linux-based.
>
> Last time I tried Kaspersky they used Linux and it was
> harder to tell what I needed to do.
> Mary
>
> On 12/25/2012 6:22 PM, AlanD wrote:
>> On 2012-12-25 1:29 PM, wmawoodjr wrote:
>>> Today I found that my Win 7 partition was infected by a virus. I rebooted to my XP partition via BING and need to clean my Win 7 partition. Do you folks have any recommendations on how I can do that? Thanks for any help you can provide.
>>>
>>>
>> what's wrong with at least attempting to downloadable a bootable rescue
>> file, from say Kapersky. You have all the tools with a good XP
>> partition-internet availability, a way to burn an ISO file to a CD
>> (presumably, but if not, get one from someone else), and then boot with
>> it to see what it can find, and clean.
>>
>> There are also at least four other AV vendors with free downloads.
>>
>> AlanD
>>
>>
>
>
Mary, AFAIK Housecall has to be run from within Windows - not always
possible with a virus or two.